Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:22:23 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.0 Message-ID: <20000209232223.A66918@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <200002091950.LAA00645@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>; from Cy Schubert on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:49:30AM -0800 References: <200002091950.LAA00645@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
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[Redirected to -current] On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:49:30AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > Can FreeBSD be upgraded from 3.4-stable to 4.0-current from source. > When I installed -current on my testbed I got a number of sig 12's > (SIGSYS), e.g. fix one, reiterate, fix the next one, etc., that I > finally gave up and installed 4.0-current from snapshot. > > The reason for asking is that I'm installing a console server in > Vancouver, a 30 minute flight by helijet from Victoria. My options are > to install -stable and subsequently install 4.1 from source, negating > the requirement to travel to Vancouver to perform the installation, or > install from CDROM or FTP requiring console access. > > Any thoughts? > Without providing any in-depth details: 0. `uname -r' returns 3.x 1. make buildworld 2. make buildkernel 3. make installkernel 4. reboot with new kernel in signle-user mode 5. make -DNOINFO installworld 6. make buildkernel installkernel (again) 7. make installworld (again, without -DNOINFO) -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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